Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOTEL SURGE will lure more note's into $1.5 billion yearly business. Salt Lake City's rich, old (since 1911") Hotel Utah will soon complete West's biggest (154 units), costliest (about $3.5 million) motel within two blocks of hotel. Features: four plush "penthouses," swimming pool, underground auditorium with capacity...
...once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the worshiping, hysterical throngs on the mass pilgrimage to the sea to carry out a plan of passive resistance during the British salt monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal...
...Forget." But the Senate balance is much too close and much too flexible for Lyndon Johnson to get anywhere just by confining his attentions to Democrats. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas once told him: "No leader is worth his salt unless he has friends on both sides of the aisle." Lyndon Johnson...
...Renegade features a fanatical Christian missionary who goes out to convert a barbarous tribe dwelling in a dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...
...simple people, clothed in a peculiar virtue compiled of poverty, helplessness, and remoteness from worldly success-a mass of mute, suppressed idealists languishing beneath the boot of the German captor." The real boot, of course, was the Soviet reign of terror; Lenin and Trotsky, between hasty Kremlin lunches "of salt pork, buckwheat grits, and red caviar," were stamping out all political opposition. Wilson might never have heeded Anglo-French pleas for intervention had it not been for "sentimental" considerations involving the Czechs, to whose postwar birth as a nation Wilson was passionately dedicated...